Valu, a buy-now-pay-later (“BNPL”) lifestyle enabling fintech platform and a subsidiary of EFG Hermes Holding, has successfully acquired Paynas, a FinTech and digital HR platform. The transaction falls in line with Valu’s strategy to grow the business and enhance its tech power and allows it to reach Paynas’s extensive base of micro, small, and medium enterprises. […]
Adsero – Ragy Soliman & Partners assisted Telecom Egypt in signing the commercial agreement with Orange Egypt for national roaming services. The latest deal comes in light of Orange Egypt landing the tender for national roaming
Deal & transactions
Egypt
Healthcare, Pharma & Life Sciences
GSK Group completes demerger of Haleon Group. The advisors
Global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited (“GSK Group”) has completed the demerger of its consumer healthcare business to form global consumer healthcare company Haleon Group. The transaction was valued at GBP 55 million (approximately USD 63.8 million).
Deal & transactions
Fashion, Luxury & Design
United Arab Emirates
Noon to acquire Emaar’s fashion venture Namshi for AED 1.23B
Emaar Malls Management (“Emaar Malls”) has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement with Noon, an e-commerce company backed by Dubai billionaire Mohamed Alabbar and Saudi Arabian sovereign fund the Public Investment Fund (“PIF”),&
Deal & transactions
Industrial
Saudi Arabia
MAZ Group and Rheinmetall Air Defense create Rad Arabia Co.
The Law Office of Looaye M. Al-Akkas in association with Vinson & Elkins has represented Saudi-based MAZ Group in its Joint Venture with Swiss-based Rheinmetall Defense to create Rad Arabia Co., a manufacturing and development
Deal & transactions
Energy & Trading
United Arab Emirates
Norton Rose Fulbright advises IHC on a AED1.8B acquisition deal
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised International Holding Company (IHC) in connection with its AED 1.8 billion (approximately USD 490 million) acquisition of a 50% stake in Kalyon Enerji, through its subsidiary International Energy Holding. &
Deal & transactions
Real Estate, Construction & Infrastructure
United Arab Emirates
Al Tamimi & Company with Peninsula on a AED555m assets deal
Peninsula Real Estate Management Limited (“Peninsula”), a real estate investment company incorporated in Abu Dhabi Global Market, has agreed to purchase for an amount of AED 555 million 17 leased warehouse buildings situated on five plots at
French container transportation and shipping company CMA CGM Group via its subsidiary CMA Terminals Holding has signed a definitive terminal service agreement and a terminal operating agreement for Alexandria’s Port’s Trans Misr
Proger and its Egyptian subsidiary Proger Egypt have signed a contract for the turnkey design and construction of a 63,000 square meters building complex for Belayim Petroleum Company’s (“Petrobel”) headquarters in Cairo. Proger Egypt
Deal & transactions
Transport
United Arab Emirates
Zakher Marine International successfully acquired by ADNOC L&S
Zakher Marine International (“ZMI”), an Abu Dhabi-based owner and operator of offshore support vessels, has been acquired by ADNOC Logistics & Services (“ADNOC L&S”), the shipping and maritime logistics arm of Abu Dhabi
